Billionaire wilderness : the ultra-wealthy and the remaking of the American West /

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"Billionaire Wilderness offers an unprecedented look inside the world of the ultra-wealthy and their relationship to the natural world, showing how the ultra-rich use nature to resolve key predicaments in their lives. Justin Farrell immerses himself in Teton County, Wyoming-both the richest cou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Farrell, Justin, 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Colección:Princeton studies in cultural sociology.
Temas:
Billionaires > Political activity > West (U.S.)
Billionaires > West (U.S.) > Social life and customs.
Social conflict > West (U.S.)
Environmental ethics > West (U.S.)
Environmental policy > West (U.S.)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Classes.
Social conflict.
Environmental policy.
Environmental ethics.
Ecology.
Billionaires.
Economic history.
West (U.S.) > Environmental conditions.
West (U.S.) > Economic conditions.
West United States.
1 percent.
1 percenters.
American West.
David Naguib Pellow.
Lisa Sun-Hee Park.
The Slums of Aspen.
affluenza.
discrimination.
environmental issues.
environmental justice.
environmental sustainability.
environmentalism.
eviction.
gentrification.
income gap.
income inequality.
land conservation.
low-wage labor.
one percent.
one percenters.
rural America.
rural poor.
social stratification.
undocumented immigration.
wealth concentration.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: setting off into the wilderness
  • Part I. How we got here and what it feels like
  • New nation of the ultra-wealthy
  • Mount billionaire
  • Part II. Using nature to solve economic dilemmas
  • Compensation conservation
  • Connoisseur conservation
  • Gilded green philanthropy
  • Moneyfest destiny
  • Part III. Using rural people to solve social dilemmas
  • Becoming rural poor, naturally
  • Guilt numbed
  • Part IV. Ultra-wealth through the eyes of the working poor
  • No time for judgment
  • Cracking the veneer
  • Epilogue: the future of wealth and the west.

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